| Diwas Khati |
Posted
on 03-Jul-01 12:21 PM
If Algerian terrorist acts in Paris are any example, (and although the nagar_safai aspect is undebatable), in these days of Maoists, I think we are inviting more trouble with these garbage bins.._diwas
(lifted from TKP online )
KMC to put garbage bins
Post Report
KATHMANDU, July 2 -In an attempt to manage the growing problem of city garbage disposal,
Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) is soon introducing garbage bins at major parts of the Capital
city, an KMC official said today.
The chief of Solid Waste Management Section, Rajesh Manandhar said Monday that KMC is
launching a new system of placing garbage bins along the major streets. "To start with, 26 cylindrical
net-bins are being placed at New Road, the busiest shopping centre of the city from Wednesday," he
said.
Though KMC spends Rs 80 million annually on urban sanitation alone, the city remains far from being
neat and clean. Seven sweepers are engaged to clean the New Road area alone.
Manandhar said that the city areas continue to remain untidy even after the sweepers sweep twice a
day because the people have the habit of throwing and dropping rubbish carelessly and litter the
streets.
And at the same time the metropolitan office too had refrained from installing garbage bins. "We did
try to introduce it earlier but we experienced that there is a larger possibility of people simply ignoring
to use them, or burning garbage unsystematically, and destroying them during demonstrations."
Each new 100-litre capacity bins costing Rs 1,500 is being distributed by Kathmandu Valley Mapping
Programme (KVMP). The bins will be emptied twice a day and couples of cleaning staff will also
collect the scattered garbage and litter for some weeks.
KVMP has a plan to distribute 510 bins around the central areas of the metropolis which includes
Soaltee-Bishnumati Bridge, Bishnumati Bridge-Tripureshwor, Tripureshwor-Sundhara, Tundikhel Area,
Ratna Park-Jamal-Tridevi Marga, Royal Palace-Indian Embassy, Kamaladi area, Old Bus Park area
are to follow after the New Road scheme becomes a cleaning success.
But Manandhar warned the citizens: "We need public help. We are placing the bins on trial for three
months. If 20 per cent of the bins are stolen during that period, it is likely that the whole programme
will have to be terminated."
The former Mayor PL Singh during his tenure in office introduced the system of placing garbage bins
but it went in ruins later as the citizens did not mind to utilise them and the upkeep and maintenance
was costly too.
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